Feedback and Complaint Mechanisms (FCM) are an essential component of transparent and accountable humanitarian response. Action Against Hunger provides formal feedback channels in the majority of its country programs. To document good practices and lessons learned, a qualitative study was undertaken focused on the FCMs in use by Action Against Hunger in Pakistan and Uganda.

How one man built a thriving fruit tree seedling business with support from Action Against Hunger

Editor's Note: With our thanks to our Uganda mission team for providing this piece.

Lomoe Achilla is a 55-year-old married father and peasant farmer from the Kaabong district of Karamoja, Uganda. In order to stay afloat financially, and not get hit hard by the lean seasons causing food insecurity in his area, he embraced the idea of raising fruit tree seedlings.

Only a few years ago, Margaret Akello lived in a temporary camp for people displaced by conflict in Northern Uganda. Today, she runs a thriving farming business and raises livestock. Photo: ACF-Uganda.

Editor's Note: Duncan Bell, Action Against Hunger's Country Director in Uganda, and our food security and livelihoods team provided the source material for this story.